Success

"To leave the world a better place/ Whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition (...) this is to have succeeded." -Emerson

I firmly believe that each of us can (and perhaps even should) aim to do all three. The important thing to remember, however, is not to try to do all three at once.

Life is a little confused right now. Usually, I'd come here and attempt to write the dilemmas to a solution, but this one time, there is no clear single road. The decisions are all mine as are the consequences. For the first time, I'm struck by how little free will I've exerted in my career choices thus far. Voiced preference and attempts to go certain places, of course. But never before have I placed one definitive step before another, knowing that there can be no going back, not entirely knowing what lies ahead. (or perhaps I have, and only did not have quite as much riding on my shoulders as I pushed my feet  off the ground.)

In any case, there is confusion, unrest. I visit this space often to find the second sight I named this blog after. And I visit, and read, and feel a little more at peace. The only decision I can try to make is to do less harm, with every step and every choice. Less harm in every way. To relationships, to family, to people unknown. To myself, physically, emotionally, intellectually. To the earth, in this 50 miles of it that I cross twice each day. Less harm  and more peace, with every action. So I read this little prayer for peace below and need no other words, just for a little while.